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Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory (2017)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., Amara, Z., Clark, C. A., Xu, Z., Kakimpa, B., Morvan, H. P., …George, M. W. (2017). Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory. Organic Process Research and Development, 21(7), 1042-1050. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.7b00153

© 2017 American Chemical Society. We report the construction and use of a vortex reactor which uses a rapidly rotating cylinder to generate Taylor vortices for continuous flow thermal and photochemical reactions. The reactor is designed to operate un... Read More about Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory.

Energy and environmental assessment and reuse of fluidised bed recycled carbon fibres (2017)
Journal Article
Meng, F., McKechnie, J., Turner, T. A., & Pickering, S. J. (2017). Energy and environmental assessment and reuse of fluidised bed recycled carbon fibres. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 100, 206-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2017.05.008

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) recycling and the reutilisation of the recovered carbon fibre (rCF) can compensate for the high impacts of virgin carbon fibre (vCF) production. In this paper, we evaluate the energy and envi... Read More about Energy and environmental assessment and reuse of fluidised bed recycled carbon fibres.

Stator and rotor vent modelling in a MVA rated synchronous machine (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Connor, P. H., Eastwick, C., Pickering, S. J., Gerada, C., & Rolston, R. (2016). Stator and rotor vent modelling in a MVA rated synchronous machine. In 2016 XXII International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM) (571-577). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICELMACH.2016.7732583

An investigation into the solution dependence of a conjugate heat transfer computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of a synchronous generator, with respect to meshing, has been carried out. Utilising CFD as a tool for investigating the airflow and t... Read More about Stator and rotor vent modelling in a MVA rated synchronous machine.

A comparative study of open and closed heat-engines for small-scale CHP applications (2016)
Journal Article
Eames, I. W., Evans, K., & Pickering, S. (2016). A comparative study of open and closed heat-engines for small-scale CHP applications. Energies, 9(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/en9030130

In this paper the authors compare and contrast open and closed-cycle heat engines. First of all, by way of example and to aid discussion, the performance of proprietary externally heated closed-cycle Stirling engines is compared with that of internal... Read More about A comparative study of open and closed heat-engines for small-scale CHP applications.

The shear viscosity of carbon fibre suspension and its application for fibre length measurement (2015)
Journal Article
Jiang, G., Turner, T. A., & Pickering, S. J. (2016). The shear viscosity of carbon fibre suspension and its application for fibre length measurement. Rheologica Acta, 55(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-015-0890-7

The viscosity of short carbon fibre suspensions in glycerol aqueous solution was measured using a bespoke vane-in-cup viscometer, where the carbon fibre has an aspect ratio from 450 to 2209. In the semi-concentrated regime, nL3 ranging from 20 to 440... Read More about The shear viscosity of carbon fibre suspension and its application for fibre length measurement.

Recycling supercapacitors based on shredding and mild thermal treatment (2015)
Journal Article
Jiang, G., & Pickering, S. J. (2016). Recycling supercapacitors based on shredding and mild thermal treatment. Waste Management, 48, 465-470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2015.10.027

Supercapacitors are widely used in electric and hybrid vehicles, wind farm and low-power equipment due to their high specific power density and huge number of charge–discharge cycles. Waste supercapacitors should be recycled according to EU directive... Read More about Recycling supercapacitors based on shredding and mild thermal treatment.

Structure–property relationship of recycled carbon fibres revealed by pyrolysis recycling process (2015)
Journal Article
Jiang, G., & Pickering, S. J. (2015). Structure–property relationship of recycled carbon fibres revealed by pyrolysis recycling process. Journal of Materials Science, 51(4), 1949-1958. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-015-9502-2

The structure-property relationship for recycled carbon fibres is investigated by characterisation of the structure changes induced by the pyrolysis recycling process. Two important factors influencing the properties of recycled carbon fibres are ide... Read More about Structure–property relationship of recycled carbon fibres revealed by pyrolysis recycling process.

Development of an aircraft wheel actuator for green taxiing (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Galea, M., Pickering, S. J., Tighe, C., XU, Z., Hamiti, T., & Gerada, C. (2014). Development of an aircraft wheel actuator for green taxiing. doi:10.1109/ICELMACH.2014.6960537

In this paper, the design and construction aspects of a wheel actuator to be used for aircraft taxiing on the ground and which will be located in the main landing gear are addressed. The main challenges with the application are the high torque densit... Read More about Development of an aircraft wheel actuator for green taxiing.

Mechanical and thermal management design of a motor for an aircraft wheel actuator (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Xu, Z., Galea, M., Tighe, C., Hamiti, T., Gerada, C., & Pickering, S. (2015). Mechanical and thermal management design of a motor for an aircraft wheel actuator. In 2014 17th International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEMS.2014.7014056

A permanent magnet motor is designed as an actuator for taxiing large aircraft in an airport. The motor is attached to the main aircraft wheel to provide a direct drive. A special topology for this machine is developed selected and designed. Due to a... Read More about Mechanical and thermal management design of a motor for an aircraft wheel actuator.

CFD modelling of an entire synchronous generator for improved thermal management (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Connor, P. H., Pickering, S. J., Gerada, C., Eastwick, C. N., & Micallef, C. (2012). CFD modelling of an entire synchronous generator for improved thermal management. . https://doi.org/10.1049/cp.2012.0290

This paper is the first in a series dedicated to investigating the airflow and thermal management of electrical machines. Due to the temperature dependent resistive losses in the machine's windings any improvement in cooling provides a direct reducti... Read More about CFD modelling of an entire synchronous generator for improved thermal management.